The Virgin Mary helped me understand something that, as of yet, I had not understood in depth. Apparently, during the Passion, the Holy Spirit was incarnated in Mary. Through Him the Father and Mary were intimately joined together and became one. The Passion of Jesus was also the Passion of the Father and the Passion of Father was experienced by Mary. The Father borrowed her heart, as it were, in order to suffer the Passion of their Son, their Child -- in her, with her, for her -- in a singular fusion of love. The Passion of the Father and the Passion of Mary became a one and only human Passion, experienced by Mary with infinite love and intensity -- the Passion of the Father Himself. Throughout the Passion of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was the intermediary between Mary and Jesus and the Father in her. The Trinity was in the Passion with Mary. Everything that Jesus suffered, what He felt in his body, in his soul, in his human heart, the Holy Spirit transmitted to Mary who experienced the same suffering, the same feelings of desolation, the same love for the Father, and the same forgiveness for humanity. At the foot of the Cross, her maternity, her love for Jesus reached the summit of fullness because in her, the Father lived and He shared His fullness with her -- the infinite perfection of His fatherhood. Likewise, for us parents (how weak is the comparison), our love for God reaches its highest degree in the death or suffering of one of our children. In this way, the father and the mother grow closer to one another, even if their human union is not perfect, sharing one and the same love and one and the same pain, in a singular fusion of fatherhood and motherhood ...